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10 technologies that may change the world

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Magical Realist Offline
"We have seen great leaps in digital technology in past the past five years. Smartphones, cloud computing, multi-touch tablets, these are all innovations that revolutionized the way we live and work. However, believe it or not, we are just getting started. Technology will get even better. In the future, we could live like how people in science fiction movies did.

Today’s post is about 10 upcoming, real-life products that is set to revolutionize the world as we know it. Get ready to control the desktop and slice Ninja fruits with your eyes. Get ready to print your own creative physical product. Get ready to dive into the virtual world, and interact with them. Come unfold the future with us."==http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/revolutionary-products/
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Yazata Offline
I have to say that the only one of these ten technologies that really caught my imagination was the driverless car. That's going to be huge when it hits. Imagine just getting into a car, telling it where you want to go, and it takes you there while you watch TV or something. (That will totally revolutionize drunk-driving.)

The biggest speedbump might turn out to be lawyers. It's inevitable that a driverless car will become confused sometime and cause an accident. And when that happens, the lawyers are gonna sue the living hell out of its manufacturer, its owner, and everyone in sight. That's a given. So despite the fact that it will probably be safer than human drivers, the price of liability insurance might make this thing unaffordable.

Virtual realty and 3-D printing are probably going to be big too, someday. But these products aren't it.

Google glass? That got me excited when I first heard about it, but the more I learn about it, the more underwhelming it seems.      
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cluelusshusbund Offline
All that fun stuff is the ground floor of whats to come;;;  wireless connecton of the brain to the internet... an soon after that mind-meld "humans" will become more machine than biological.!!!
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stryder Offline
(Nov 11, 2014 01:57 AM)Yazata Wrote: I have to say that the only one of these ten technologies that really caught my imagination was the driverless car. That's going to be huge when it hits. Imagine just getting into a car, telling it where you want to go, and it takes you there while you watch TV or something. (That will totally revolutionize drunk-driving.)

So the smart money is on artificial organ replacement since they'll be more drunks?

Quote:The biggest speedbump might turn out to be lawyers. It's inevitable that a driverless car will become confused sometime and cause an accident. And when that happens, the lawyers are gonna sue the living hell out of its manufacturer, its owner, and everyone in sight. That's a given. So despite the fact that it will probably be safer than human drivers, the price of liability insurance might make this thing unaffordable.

The main problem with full AI controlled cars is how they deal with given situations, image you have two car's that are playing "chicken"... should they use their processing power to bring both cars to a stop?, should they be forced to avoid by moving to one side? (the same side to stop collisions)

This generates other problems since if there isn't an industry standard in regards to dealing with this particular problem, other companies might produce AI systems that do something completely different. There is then the point that different countries can drive on different sides of the road, so does this mean only the country of origin should allow the licensing of particular cars for their roads and stop people from other countries using their own?

What makes the most sense is to build a mesh network of systems that does the heavy lifting (the processing and "Flight planning") which cars only have very primitive AI's applied to deal with bringing a car to a safe stop should it lose contact with the network. (On top of that you then have the problem of Human overrides, for instance one of those drunks could crash the car then just flick on the autopilot and blame the software).

It's a "can of worms" problem.

(Incidentally flying cars never "took off" for a myriad of reasons, for instance people throwing rubbish out of their window onto your house below, the nature of how many accidents we have occur with ground based cars etc)

Quote:Virtual realty and 3-D printing are probably going to be big too, someday. But these products aren't it.

Google glass? That got me excited when I first heard about it, but the more I learn about it, the more underwhelming it seems.      

The future is further de-materialisation. It's not having some miniaturised or quirky flimsy plastic coated gadget or device. It's the removal of these things from our environment, placing sensory systems in furniture and equipment so that our world is viewed by the systems that connect with us and it. Having those sensory systems work together to generate a mesh network which allows it to view beyond more than just it's limited sensors.

Imagine walking to an advertisement board to interact with a Virtual person that follows your every position through such sensors, camera's etc. On arrival you can ask questions (i.e. Which shop has x in stock?), use it as an aggregator for communication (instead of a mobile device), play games etc.

Such a system does raise relevant concerns about a persons privacy since such a system would know and see all, if you managed to break contact it would have to re-negotiate with you via it's terminal to identify you are who you say you are and once that's done it starts tracking you all over again.

Your not forced to use one terminal however, if you walked the length of the road your "Concierge" can "blink" from one sign to the next to keep up, moving with the sensors. If you are in a populated area with other people also being tracked it would mean either the Concierge can hide, or the view on the screen itself is populated with all the concierges that are following other people. (The Concierge's can interact with each other at the bequest of their sponsor)

Concierge's can be used to connect with real people in the event of incidents, so if someone has an accident or is attacked the relevant emergency service can be dispatched with someone trying to assess the situation through the concierges "eyes" and communicate any instructions through the same system of screens as the concierge uses. It could also be used to get an interpreter up to aid in communicating with people of foreign languages, I'd also suggest it would be extremely difficult to find yourself lost in any city sporting this.

The point is that you don't have devices on your person that need charging, or a signal or could be robbed or lost from you. Instead it's integrated into the environment around you. This reduces resources (oil/ore etc) that are used in the manufacturing of devices that are constantly being sold and updated to create obsoleted product lines. Instead money could go on creating an intelligent infrastructure however it would have to be proven to be something that isn't build for governments to misuse and spy on their citizens, but actually be something that is build with the intention of the citizens in mind.

That's how I would envision a major change to our future... the only reason it's not happening yet is either through people not sharing that reasoning or through companies quite happily selling us short.
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